Blogspot - Interia Dezain

It's been a relaxed week here in Shipka. The main focus has stayed on the market garden where we are sowing and planting out the warm season annual crops. The weather has been warm with cloudy cool spells and the wild vegetation is really starting to take off. The fruits are forming on the trees and shrubs and the promise of summer, albeit 6 weeks away, is in the air. So here's what we've been up to this week. Ronan Delente  a chef who has been travelling the world cooking across the continents has joined as for the study this year. Ronan has been experimenting with various recipes using the wild plants and perennial vegetables from the gardens. He started a blog this week to share his recipes and love for cooking with perennials.  Check out his Falafel recipe here, looks very tasty .  The Forest Garden - Aponia   It's going to be a good year for plums it seems especially the wild  Prunus cerasifera - Cherry Plum  that grow in abundance in our area. Th...

This is the third year of our Market Garden Polyculture Study.  Our trials include a comparison between growing vegetables in polycultures and growing them in more traditional blocks as well as our experimentation with annual vegetable polycultures. Below you will find an overview of the trial garden and the polycultures we are growing, a description of what we record and the results. Some photos from this season - and here's a slideshow from the season First of all we'd like to say a huge thank you to the team of volunteers that joined us for the study this year and that make it possible for us to carry out our experiments and research. It was a pleasure to work together with you :) Thank you Fergus Webster, Gabriele Landi , Chris Mallorie, Abigail and Ed, Ute Villavicencio, Charlie Morton, Chris Kirby-Lambert ,  Simon , Kartini, Karl and Marlene, David Pavlasevic ,  Kathy Donor , William Kunkle, Ben Matz and  Rosa Van Giessen . You guys are awesome! Polyculture St...